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by frereubu 2y ago
This is exactly the complacency that's going to ruin lots of government systems. 20 or even 10 years ago, everyone would be rightly horrified about anyone like this having privileged access. He seemingly hasn't faced any consequen
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by frereubu 2y ago
From the dates on https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs it looks like this is / was a roughly weekly post, so it might take a while if you're waiting for them specifically.
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by frereubu 2y ago
He deals with this specifically in the article.
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by frereubu 2y ago
> Wrapping up - Migrating away from US cloud services was easier than I expected. This is absolutely not the main takeaway and I find it difficult to see how he could write this - there are gaping holes. Git repos (it's too difficul
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by frereubu 2y ago
I'm not sure whether it's listening to more than the wake word, but I've seen Siri wake up quite often when I very definitely haven't said anything approaching "Siri", and see it occasionally on other people&#x
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by frereubu 2y ago
Three days ago, 252 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43360024
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by frereubu 2y ago
In MacOS There's an accessibility setting in System Settings > Accessibility > Display called "Differentiate without colour" that adds some extra affordances like on and off icons in the switches. I forget what else, bu
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by frereubu 2y ago
If you use MacOS, you can get some of that black-and-white feeling back by going into System Settings > Accessibility > Display, scroll down to Colour Filters, turn it on, change Filter type to Greyscale and set Intensity to High. I d
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by frereubu 2y ago
This gets my goat as well, particularly given how vast Africa is (the Mercator projection does it no favours in that regard) and the diversity of cultures.
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by frereubu 2y ago
I wasn't saying anyone bought into it, just that it's the story Facebook now tells about itself.
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by frereubu 2y ago
A couple of decades ago a colleague had a great idea for a website called "negative knowledge" where people would dump all of their ideas that had failed, because there's generally more useful information from failure than th
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The Great Political Films: The Social Network [podcast](ppfideas.com)
1 points by frereubu 2y ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 2y ago
These kinds of amoral corporate hierarchies will by their nature promote people who give themselves over entirely to the business. It's not that everyone who works there turns into that kind of corporate drone, it just weeds out the pe
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by frereubu 2y ago
The idealism is the current corporate story - "enabling communication" etc. - but you're right that there was no idealism to start with. Zuckerberg set up The Facebook so undergrads at Harvard could rate how hot girls were, s
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Cheating scandal shocks ski jumping, topples Olympic champions(apnews.com)
19 points by frereubu 2y ago|10 comments
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OpenAI's metafictional short story about grief is beautiful and moving(theguardian.com)
2 points by frereubu 2y ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 2y ago
Something's a bit wrong with the colour on that though - it looks really oversaturated.
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by frereubu 2y ago
> and the gain vs Copilot is not that high I think that's (at least part of) your answer. More friction to move back from an entirely separate app rather than disabling an extension.
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by frereubu 2y ago
I don't agree that it's "trivial". The devil will be in the detail and could drag out in the courts depending on the language definitions. Quite apart from the fact that anything dreamt up at short notice is going to hav
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by frereubu 2y ago
He has a very strange way of showing that if it's true.
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by frereubu 2y ago
This is another great one by Sinéad O'Connor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZIB6MslCAo OK, I want to talk about Ireland Specifically I want to talk about the "famine" About the fact that there neve
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by frereubu 2y ago
> "The main-top mast, from head to heel, was shivered into a thousand splinters..." I hadn't realised the origin (presumably) of the stereotypical naval saying "shiver me timbers" was from lightning striking mast
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by frereubu 2y ago
With respect, any time someone writes "just" in a sentence like this I'm immediately suspicious that it comes from a place of ignorance. What is your qualification to make such a sweeping statement?
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by frereubu 2y ago
Another vote for Overcast.
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by frereubu 2y ago
> Last week, the company announced that Duggal was to be replaced as chief but would remain on its board as founder and retain the title of “chief wizard”. I don't really know much about this company, but this kind of language makes
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by frereubu 2y ago
https://archive.is/LiSP9
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Chief of Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai steps down(ft.com)
1 points by frereubu 2y ago|2 comments
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E-Prime(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by frereubu 2y ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 2y ago
I know this is about Windows, but just in case any Mac users don't know, there's a default app called Screen Sharing (in Applications > Utilities) that lets you dial into any other Mac user's computer if you have their iCl
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by frereubu 2y ago
Yeah, reading this page with no mention of Firefox feels a bit weird - I was asking myself the whole time what the relationship is. All I needed was something saying "a privacy-preserving fork of Firefox" or similar to put that to

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